Summer Hours: In Life’s Twilight, Maysles Looks at a Late Life Fashion Icon and Finds Love in Work, Marriage & Stuff
Watching Iris, a light-hearted profile of the self professed ‘geriatric starlet’ of New York City costume couture, Iris Apfel, one could not help but think of two things – the singular oddness of the Beales of Grey Gardens bleeding through a port hole of performative cinema history into the life an oddball worthy of comparison, and the massive gaping hole left by the loss of the man who managed to immortalize them all as silver screen legends – the incomparable Albert Maysles who tragically died just last month at age 88.
It’s impossible not to concentrate on the many moments in acknowledgement of his presence behind the camera – the casually tender moments when Iris, then 92, introduces Albert to her friends and colleagues, lovingly acknowledging his own legacy and public persona,...
Watching Iris, a light-hearted profile of the self professed ‘geriatric starlet’ of New York City costume couture, Iris Apfel, one could not help but think of two things – the singular oddness of the Beales of Grey Gardens bleeding through a port hole of performative cinema history into the life an oddball worthy of comparison, and the massive gaping hole left by the loss of the man who managed to immortalize them all as silver screen legends – the incomparable Albert Maysles who tragically died just last month at age 88.
It’s impossible not to concentrate on the many moments in acknowledgement of his presence behind the camera – the casually tender moments when Iris, then 92, introduces Albert to her friends and colleagues, lovingly acknowledging his own legacy and public persona,...
- 4/27/2015
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
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